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"OS6" - a question or three
First, a direct question: I'm currently running my Pro BE's with 5 or 6 disks using "x-raid2" and "dual redundancy." (RAID6 with the xraid2 expansion scheme.) I downloaded the manual for one of...
I think I'm going to grab the Pro BE I have that's already out of warranty and modify it a bit. I might be moving a bit out of topic for the "presales" section, but it's actually for the purpose of presales...
If I took that older Pro BE box (not Pro 6), swapped out the CPU with an E6700 (which seems to be the highest performing dual core processor known to work on that box regardless of which MB revision is in there), swapped the 1x1GB DDR2 out with 2x2GB sticks, and put OS6 on it (which would void the warranty that's already expired)... would that give me something comparable to the newer 516 box? I realize I'd still be missing some hardware interfaces such as USB3 and eSATA. However, in day to day use as a network attached storage device (and not for things like transcoding) would it be nearly the same as a stock 516? Perhaps a clearer question would be if such a converted box would be representative of what I'd get in purchasing a 516.
Jumping back to the dual redundancy and OS6... The method used to get that working with xraid2 is interesting. So set things up with flex-raid raid6 and then just convert it intact to xraid2?
Oh, and on the 516, can a eSATA drive be used for backing up the array? Or can they only be used for expanding the array?
For the raid scrubbing on a schedule issue: Can the raid scrubbing be initiated via a command line? If so, would it be feasible to just create a cron job to kick it on a schedule? That would probably suffice as a work-around for a validation check I've become accustomed to.
@Mdgm, from the descriptions above and what I've seen in my PM box, it appears that I'd be able to use a newly purchased 516 box to at least get the data off a Radiator4 array in a pinch. Not as clean as a replacement pre-OS6 box (which would just take over the array natively), but at least doable. That's helpful.
@StephenB, I appreciate the suggestion to just wait and see what might happen with a new OS6 version, but I'm being pressured to come up with a plan to cycle out the BE's before the end of the year. (It doesn't help that my primary job is software development, so I'm really only able to work on this NAS stuff on my supposedly free time.)
Thanks
Gary
If I took that older Pro BE box (not Pro 6), swapped out the CPU with an E6700 (which seems to be the highest performing dual core processor known to work on that box regardless of which MB revision is in there), swapped the 1x1GB DDR2 out with 2x2GB sticks, and put OS6 on it (which would void the warranty that's already expired)... would that give me something comparable to the newer 516 box? I realize I'd still be missing some hardware interfaces such as USB3 and eSATA. However, in day to day use as a network attached storage device (and not for things like transcoding) would it be nearly the same as a stock 516? Perhaps a clearer question would be if such a converted box would be representative of what I'd get in purchasing a 516.
Jumping back to the dual redundancy and OS6... The method used to get that working with xraid2 is interesting. So set things up with flex-raid raid6 and then just convert it intact to xraid2?
Oh, and on the 516, can a eSATA drive be used for backing up the array? Or can they only be used for expanding the array?
For the raid scrubbing on a schedule issue: Can the raid scrubbing be initiated via a command line? If so, would it be feasible to just create a cron job to kick it on a schedule? That would probably suffice as a work-around for a validation check I've become accustomed to.
@Mdgm, from the descriptions above and what I've seen in my PM box, it appears that I'd be able to use a newly purchased 516 box to at least get the data off a Radiator4 array in a pinch. Not as clean as a replacement pre-OS6 box (which would just take over the array natively), but at least doable. That's helpful.
@StephenB, I appreciate the suggestion to just wait and see what might happen with a new OS6 version, but I'm being pressured to come up with a plan to cycle out the BE's before the end of the year. (It doesn't help that my primary job is software development, so I'm really only able to work on this NAS stuff on my supposedly free time.)
Thanks
Gary
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